- Teenage boys, Zoo animals, Fiction, Literature
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Yann Martel
- First published
- May 29, 2003
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Fischer (S.), Frankfurt, Sterling Publishing, Huang Guan
- Editions
- 115
- Language
- French, Spanish, dan, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780857861504
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“My suffering left me sad and gloomy.”
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel *Life of Pi,* an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. *Life of Pi* was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel is also the author of the novels *The High Mountains of Portugal,* *Beatrice and Virgil,* and *Self;* the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister, *101 Letters to a Prime Minister.*
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